Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer visits per person served than 86% of Ontario’s town libraries: The Nation Public Library counts 1.8
The 13,350 people The Nation Public Library serves have 3 branches to choose from. 3.3 items per person served went out on loan in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
DCivic life#854 of 866 in OntarioLimoges’s civic life grade, input by input
Limoges gets a D for civic life, #854 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Limoges.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
5 registered charities give a Limoges mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.3; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
32.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 195 town libraries in Ontario’s statistics for 2024.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 473 visits in a typical week
Everything counted at The Nation Public Library in 2024: visits, loans and cards.
Limoges’s 3 public libraries
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Limoges.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Limoges
Does Limoges have a public library?
Yes, 3: Succursale de St-Albert Branch, The Nation Public Library - Limoges Branch and The Nation Public Library - St. Isidore Branch.
How busy is The Nation Public Library?
For 2024 it reported 44,547 loans and 24,596 in-person visits.
Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).